Quotes about Learning

The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn." (Winston Churchill)

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

The best Bible teaching is not that which dazzles people with the profound intellect of their teacher, but that which puts its truth squarely in their hands.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.